Category Archives: Class Activities

1. What three things that you learned this semester about doing research have been the most useful to you (or are likely to be the most useful to you)? Please explain why for each of those things.
   How to more efficiently use google. Like google history, better ways to search either using quotes and “and” and “or” and stuff like that. Thirdly, I thought that learning how to use databases was really important.
2. What is one thing that you wish we had spent more time covering in class or that we failed to get to in class? Why do you wish we had gotten to that?
   I wish we could have gone over peer-reviewed, because I didn’t really get it and I did pretty horribly on the homework relating to it.

Write your own blog post here that answers these two questions:

1. What three things that you learned this semester about doing research have been the most useful to you (or are likely to be the most useful to you)? Please explain why for each of those things.
2. What is one thing that you wish we had spent more time covering in class or that we failed to get to in class? Why do you wish we had gotten to that?

Then, the class will be divided up into three-person groups. Members of each three person group will discuss how they answered the two questions. Then as a group they will decide how they will answer the two questions as a group. Those answers will be written up in a new blog post (one member of the team can do the typing and posting to the blog, but all members of the team should be listed by name in the blog post and should contribute to the creation of the post).

Newspaper:

“Google introduces new tool for scholarly research.” Associated Press Newswire. 18 Nov. 2004. Factiva. Web. 16 Nov. 2011.

Journal:

“Google Launches Google Scholar.” Advanced Technology Libraries 33.12 (2004): 1, 11. Library Lit & Inf Full Text. Web. 16 Nov. 2011.

Book:

Malcolm, Shannon L. The Next Big Thing?: Google Scholar and Legal Scholarship. , 2005. Print. World-Cat.

Magazine:

Chillingworth, Mark. “Google Unveils Beta Scholar.” Information World Review 208 (2004): 1. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 16 Nov. 2011.

Jasco, Peter. “Amazon, Google Book Search, and Google Scholar.” Online. MasterFILE. March 2008. 51-54. Print

Herrera, Gail. “Google Scholar Users and User Behaviors: An Exploratory Study.” Library Literature and Information Science Full Text. College & Research Libraries July 2011. 9 Nov. 2011.

Notess, Greg R. “Google Scholar. (search Engine Update).” Information Today 1 Nov. 2011. Factiva. Web. 14 Nov. 2011.

Miller, William, and Rita M. Pellen. Google Scholar and More: New Google Applications and Tools for Libraries and Library Users. World Cat. London: Routledge, 2009. Print.

In November 2004 Google scholar was officially launched, and made searching scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports accessible to the public.

newspaper article

Benn, Oliver. “Worthy Adversary; Google Scholar gives Westlaw, Lexis a run for their money; Tools of the Trade.” The Recorder 8 March 2010

magazine article

Young J. “Google Unveils a Search Engine Focused on Scholarly Materials.” Chronicle Of Higher Education December 3, 2004: pA34-A34 . print.

journal article

 Mayr, Philipp, and Anne-Kathrin Walter. “An exploratory study of Google Scholar.” Online Information Review 31.6 (2007): 814-30. Library Lit & Inf Full Text. Web. 14 Nov. 2011.

book

Miller, William, and Rita M. Pellen. Google Scholar and More: New Google Applications and Tools for Libraries and Library Users. London: Routledge, 2009. Print.

Newspaper:

• Notess, Greg R. “Understanding Google: How Best to Use Google for Research.” Information Today 1 Nov. 2011, 36th ed., sec. 6. Factiva. Web. 14 Nov. 2011.

Magazine:

• Neuhaus, ChrisNeuhaus, EllenAsher, Alan. “Google Scholar Goes To School: The Presence Of Google Scholar On College And University Web Sites.” Journal Of Academic Librarianship 34.1 (2008): 39. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Journal:

• Cothran, Tanya. “Google Scholar acceptance and use among graduate students: A quantitative study.” Library & Information Science Research 33.4 (2011): 293-301. Library Lit & Inf Full Text. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Book:

• Miller, William, and Rita M. Pellen. Libraries and Google. Binghamton, NY, USA: Haworth Information Press, 2005. Print.

Newspaper Article

“Google introduces new tool for scholarly research.” Associated Press Newswire. 18 Nov. 2004. Factiva. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Magazine Article

Markoff, John. “TECHNOLOGY; Google Plans New Service For Scientists And Scholars.” New York Times. 18 Nov. 2004: 6. MASTERFILE Premier. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Journal Article

Scott, Ralph Lee. “Two New Search Engines: MSN Search/Beta and Google/Scholar [computer file].” North Carolina Libraries (Online) Winter 2004: 235-6.  Library Literature and Information Science Full Text. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Book

Miller, William, and Rita M. Pellen. Libraries and Google. Binghamton, NY, USA: Haworth Information Press, 2005. WorldCat. Web. 14 Nov. 2011

Newspaper Article: “Google Rolls Out Search Product for Scholars.” Reuters News (2004). Factiva. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Magazine article: Chillingworth, Mark. “Google Unveils Beta Scholar.” Information World Review 208 Dec. 2004: 1-1. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Journal article: “Google Launches Google Scholar.” Advanced Technology Libraries 33.12 (2004): 1, 11. Library Lit & Inf Full Text. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Book: Miller, William, and Rita M. Pellen. Libraries and Google. Binghamton, NY, USA: Haworth Information Press, 2005. WorldCat. Print. 9 Nov. 2011.

While you may find EasyBib a useful tool for helping you do citations, you should also have a basic understanding of how to do citations, as tools like EasyBib will often make mistakes or won’t catch your mistakes as you enter information.

Journal Article in a Database (MODEL)

Last name, First name. “Article title.” Name of the journal (use italics) Volume number. Issue number (year of publication): first page number-last page number. Name of the database that had the full text of the article(use italics). Web. Date you accessed the full text of the article.

Journal Article in a Database (EXAMPLE)

Kubis, Kathleen E. “Google Books: Page By Page, Click By Click, Users Are Reading Away Privacy Rights.” Vanderbilt Journal Of Entertainment & Technology Law 13.1 (2010): 217-254. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Nov. 2011.

Newspaper Article in a Database (MODEL)

Last name, First name. “Article title.” Name of the newspaper (use italics) Date of publication (note that it goes day Month year): page number. Name of the database that had the full text of the article(use italics). Web. Date you accessed the full text of the article.

Newspaper Article in a Database (EXAMPLE)

Richardson, Lynda. “Minority Students Languish in Special Education System.” New York Times 6 Apr. 1994: A1+. LexisNexis Academic. Web. 14 November 2011.

Magazine Article in a Database (MODEL)

Last name, First name. “Article title.” Name of the magazine (use italics) Date of publication (note that it goes day Mon. year): page number. Name of the database that had the full text of the article(use italics). Web. Date you accessed the full text of the article.

Magazine Article in a Database (EXAMPLE)

Albanese, Andrew Richard. “The Googlization Of Books.” Publishers Weekly  31 Jan. 2011: 20. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 14 Nov. 2011.

Google Scholar was first introduced in October 2004 and formally launched the following month, November.

The first kinds of articles that were published were newspapers.

“Technology Brief — Google Inc.: Tool to Search Scholarly Papers Is Set to Be Launched Today.” The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 16 November 2011 Factivia. Web. 15 Nov. 2011

“Google introduces new tool for scholarly research.” Associated Press Newswires. The Associated Press, 18 November 2004. Factivia. Web. 9 Nov. 2011

The earliest magazine article was published November 22, 2004.

Albanese, Andrew. “Google Launches Scholarly Search Service.” Publishers Weekly 251.47 (2004): 13. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

The earliest journal article was from January 2005.

Abram, Stephen. “Google Scholar: Thin Edge of the Wedge?.” Information Outlook 9.1 (2005): 44-6. Library Lit & Inf Full Text. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

The earliest book published about Google Scholar was in 2005 from WorldCat.

Miller, William, and Rita M. Pellen. Libraries and Google. Binghamton, NY, USA: Haworth Information Press, 2005. Print. 9 Nov. 2011